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We had the pleasure to interview Dan Brophy from Capella Space as he talks about who Capella is, what they are doing, and what is unique about the satellite constellation they are launching in March. Listen and check out what Dan has to say about this amazing new US-based satellite radar imaging company. 

About Capella Space

Capella Space is an information services company that provides on-demand sub 0.5m very high-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Earth observation imagery. Through a constellation of small satellites, Capella is providing easy access to frequent, timely and flexible information affecting dozens of industries worldwide. Capella’s high-resolution SAR satellites are matched with unparalleled infrastructure to deliver reliable global insights that sharpen our understanding of the changing world - improving decisions about commerce, conservation and well-being on Earth. Learn more at capellaspace.com.

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RapidEye Constellation being Retired

https://www.planet.com/pulse/rapideye-constellation-to-be-retired-in-2020/

DJI Comments on Remote ID from FAA

https://content.dji.com/we-strongly-support-drone-remote-id-but-not-like-this/?from=dap_unique&pbc=qCg1DB1v&pm=custom

Do you like hearing our podcast on Geospatial News, best practices, and guest speakers on industry best practices? You can contribute to our continued operation through https://anchor.fm/projectgeo/support and https://www.patreon.com/projectgeospatial

Your contribution keeps our website running and funds our participation to cover conferences on various events beyond the GEOINT Symposium. If you represent a company in the industry and would like to talk about your product or service on our show please reach out to us.

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In this episode Adam mentions the following:

FAA and Drone ID

NORTH 51

Maxar Open Data Program

Pierre Markuse - An Introduction Looking at Wildfires

https://pierre-markuse.net/2019/09/17/looking-at-wildfires-and-more-an-introduction/

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This Week's Geospatial News for Week of 2019-12-18

Near Space Labs - It's a new company focused on providing persistent imagery monitoring from balloons over major metropolitan areas. 

This Week's Geospatial News talks on Fusion Tables deprication, QGIS Earth Engine Plugin, the Twitter #30DayMapChallenge, and Satellite 2020, and the latest Capella announcement. 

In his 3rd appearance since we started the show 7 years ago, Josh Williams joins us to talk about GE Teach, a web application he developed to aide his teaching of geography. Josh additionally discusses other GIS tools and best practices he has employed. You can check out GE Teach at the following link: geteach.com. Josh's blog, https://geteach.com/blog/, and GE Teach youtube channel have great resources and best practices too. Make sure to follow Josh on Twitter at @geteach.

Great Resources by Josh:

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